dying man
Examples
I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.
It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.
They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
The dying man is not saved by medicine.
Hope gives strength and courage, and saves an otherwise dying man from his grave.
A dying man discovers the honesty with which he was born.